The
following articles are still available for your perusal:
Recent articles
Giselle Wyers interviews Sandra Snow, one of our 2010 Summer Institute guest presenters (11/2009)
by Giselle Wyers, R & S Chair for Youth and Student Activities, WA ACDA
Building a "Soundtrack" for Life (8/2009)
by Giselle Wyers, R&S Chair for Student and Youth Activities
Seed money available for projects aimed at promoting excellence in choral music offered by WA ACDA (3/3/11)
by Lori Wiest, President-Elect, WA ACDA
The Trust Factor – An Imperative Part of a Successful Choral Program (2/14/11)
by Justin Wisness, R&S Chair for Multi-Cultural Music
High School Choir Tour:
Places, spaces, and a justification! (3-2010)
by Justin Wisness,
R & S Chair for Multi-Cultural Music
Tapping into Technology (3/2/09)
By Justin Wisness, Washington State Multicultural R&S Chair
Vowels are the key to the key (2/11/11)
Julie Whalen R&S Chair MS/JH Music, Secretary
More "start of the year" ideas with emphasis on "getting to know you" (9/1/10)
by Julie Whalen, R & S Chair for Middle Schools/Junior High
Have you taught them to sight-read? Here's a way to find out (4/30/10)
by Julie Whalen , Middle School/Junior High R&S Chair
Need a second semester fresh start? Here are some ideas that’ll renew your energy and vitalize your choir (1/26/10)
By Julie Whalen, R & S Chair for Junior High/Middle School Choirs
Message from President Marc A. Hafso regarding election of new president-elect; Tim Fitzpatrick elected President-Elect (11/29/10) by Marc A. Hafso
District Vertical Concerts: A Great Recruiting Tool (2/10/11)
by Josh Viles – Repertoire and Standards Chair for Men’s Choirs
Five Easy, Non-Musical Ways to Streamline Your Rehearsals (2010)
By Josh Viles – WA ACDA Rep. and Standards Chair for Male Choirs
Debunking the Myths of the Urban School District (4/29/10)
by Josh Viles, Editor, UNISON, R&S Chair for Male Choirs
Deep Thoughts with Teenage Boys: What Does Choir Mean to Them? (2/2/10)
by Josh Viles, Editor, UNISON and R&S Chair for Male Choirs
The Nice List
(Men’s Choral Music for your Holiday Concert)
By Josh Viles,
WA ACDA Repertoire and Standards Chair – Male Choirs
Choral music for men’s voices; more than just shanties and taverns! (9/10/08)
by Josh Viles, Editor, UNISON
Keepers of the Song (complete series) (published 2010 and 2011)
by Joel Ulrich, Worship in Music
Creating the Choral Quilt (2-14-11)
by Barbara Tappa, Eastern Washington ACDA Liaison
A Jump Start on Fall (9/10/10)
by Barbara Tappa, Eastern Washington ACDA Liaison
Never Underestimate the Power of Networking (5/6/10)
by Barbara Tappa, Eastern Liaison
Show Choir? You bet! (1/22/10)
by Barbara Tappa,
Eastern Liaison
WA ACDA Summer Institute sets new attendance record with 216; Karen Fulmer receives Leadership and Service Award for 2008 (8/15/08)
Better minds through music - Reading, Writing and Music: Why Music Belongs at the Center of the
Curriculum (4/14/09)
Drawn from a public address in the "Westmont Downtown Lecture Series," and also available in a print version in "The Westmont College Magazine," Winter 2009 (reprinted by permission)
On having trees fall on me, and Frances George (1/21/11)
by Leora Schwitters, WA ACDA Treasurer
WA-ACDA Treasurer’s Report - August 15, 2010 (9/1/10)
by Leora Schwitters, Treasurer
Creating beautiful phrases (4/10/10)
by Leora Schwitters, WA-ACDA Treasurer and Past-President
More awards being considered for WA-ACDA members (2/3/10)
by Leora Schwitters, Vice President/Treasurer
Leora Schwitters turns over reins of WA ACDA to Marc Hafso; commends board for "passion and commitment" (6/30/09)
National ACDA Convention—see you there! (1/2009)
March 4-7, 2009
Leora Schwitters, President, WA-ACDA
No better time to join ACDA; tell you colleagues about it! (4/10/09)
by Leora Schwitters, President, WA ACDA
Strong, committed board members lead the way for an even
better WA ACDA (8/10/08)
by Leora Schwitters, President
Starting an Elementary Honor Choir in Your Region (5/7/10)
by Jenny Price, R & S Chair for Elementary Music
Partnerships with community-based children’s choirs and school choirs (8/10/09)
Jenny Price, WA-ACDA R&S Chair Children’s Choirs
Adding Listening Lessons to your Choral Rehearsals (11/19/10)
By Jenny Price, R&S Children’s and Community Youth
“Just an elementary music teacher”….(2/10/10)
by Jenny Price, R & S Chair for Elementary Music
It's not being the best, it's being our best! (9/1/10)
by Brian Mitchell, R & S Chair for High School Choirs
Music that works...
For high school choirs with orchestra (4/30/10)
by Brian Mitchell, R & S Chair for High School Choirs
Great books to have on your desk, the bookshelf in your office, or even on the nightstand (1/30/10)
by Brian Mitchell, R & S Chair for High School Choirs
Mirinesse Women's Choir to perform for national convention of the ACDA, March 4, 2009; Rebecca Rottsolk and Beth Ann Bonnecroy conduct (1/21/09)
High paid teachers drive
up taxes; here's a solution (satire, taken from an article written in 2001) 3/15/08
submitted by Leora Schwitters
Henry Leck, Tacoma Youth Chorus, to present workshop May 21; Leck to be guest conductor in residency with TYC May 17-22 (5/10/11)
by Judy Herrington
A Conversation with Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt (5/11/11)
Director of Choral Activities, University of Toronto
by Marc A. Hafso, President, WA-ACDA
Washington ACDA Winter Training Choir Workshop draws in new members (1/12/2010)
by Marc A. Hafso, President, WA ACDA
Rekindle the spark and share our passion for what we do 9/25/09
by Marc A. Hafso, President, WA ACDA
Marc A. Hafso becomes president, WA-ACDA; looks to "quiet and effective" leadership of past-president, Leora Schwitters, for guidance...welcomes Lori Wiest to her post as president-elect 7/20/09
Winter Choral Workshop for 2011 successful; serves elementary, middle school, and small high school directors
by Sue Green, Membership Chair
(2/14/11)
SIGHT-SINGING: BREAK IT DOWN! - published 5/17/10
Seven Steps to Student Success
Sight Singing Methods for the Younger Training Choir or Elementary General Music Classroom
by Sue Green, Membership Chair, WA ACDA
Susan Green, WA ACDA Membership Chair, writes a memo to choral directors who are not members of ACDA
August, 2009
by Sue Green, Western Liaison, WA ACDA
Tim Fitzpatrick tells us and our accompanists what makes it work! (And other Tim Fitzpatrick articles) This one 9/17/10
by Tim Fitzpatrick
Vocal health and good singing can be ours, even as we join the "aging voice" demographic (9/1/10)
by April Duvic, R&S Chair for Community Choirs
Contests: pros and
cons, and should ACDA get more involved in running them? (4/21/08)
By Ron Bayer Green River Community College
Activities and music ideas for the start of school (published Sept., 2009)
by Julie Whalen, R&S Chair for Junior High/Middle School Choirs
Let's put the lessons of summer into use on a daily basis (published Sept., 2009)
by Brian Mitchell, R&S Chair for High School Choirs
Starting the Year (published Sept., 2009)
by Barbara Tappa, Eastern Liaison WA-ACDA
College Scholarship Auditions:
Tips from an Insider
by Giselle Wyers, R&S Chair for Youth and Student
Activities
Lori Wiest to become president-elect, WA-ACDA (3/30/09)
Choral music for men’s voices; more than just shanties and taverns!
Josh Viles, Editor, UNISON
WA ACDA Summer Institute sets new attendance record with 216; Karen Fulmer receives Leadership and Service Award for 2008
Have you read your Choral
Journal recently?
by Leora Schwitters
WA-ACDA board spring meeting held in Renton, April 4, 2009
An elementary choral program that works; third grade is the key year
by Jennifer Price, R&S Chair for Children's Choirs
Let’s vow, NEVER AGAIN (10/7/08)
by Howard Meharg
The Changing Face of "Music in Worship" in America (9/8/08)
by Ron Mallory, R&S Chair, Music in Worship
The Keyboard in the Choral Rehearsal
By Tim Fitzpatrick, WWU Choral Music Professor
Contests: pros and cons, and should ACDA get
more involved in running them?
by Ron Bayer
ACDA about affirmation and encouragement; president's message
by Leora Schwitters, WA-ACDA President (March
15, 2008)
Joyce Eilers-Bacak, perhaps Washington's most prolific composer/arranger of choral music, dies June 2
Reach out and touch someone (3/21/08)
by Sue Lundy Green, Western Liaison, WA ACDA
Recruiting and engaging singers with a multi-cultural hook
by Justin Wisness, R&S Chair for Multi-Cultural Music
A Cognitive Crescendo:
How Music Affects Our Brain Function 7/28/08
Angela Hampton
R&S Chair – High School Choirs for Indiana ACDA (reprinted by permission)
- Conversation
with Dr. Tim Seelig
by Karen P. Thomas, NW Division R&S Chair for Community Choruses
Feel
free to make it an on-going conversation in improving our mutual
work in choral music
by Joel Ulrich, WA State R & S Chair, High School (Feb.
2007)
Norbert Rossi
reviews Choral CHARISMA, Singing with Expression, a book by Tom Carter -
Feb. 2007
Voice Lessons
for the Choral Director by Leora Schwitters - October,
2007
Marc A. Hafso
elected president-elect for WA-ACDA (1/10/07)
Georgina Philippson to
serve as secretary-treasurer for WA-ACDA; begins role in May, 2007
ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT
ALL! by John Weiss, R&S Chair, University
Choirs
ACDA-IFCM Voices of the Baltics by
Timothy Fitzpatrick, R & S Chair for Male Choruses
Sing
Me a Home, A
Collaboration with Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity by
Larry Fuchsberg,
Minnesota Chorale & St. Olaf Church, Minneapolis
International Touring - Make it happen! A recount
of my travels to Ireland in 2006, and some steps to follow in planning your own
adventures - by Russell Seaton
An Inside View of the Voice - by Leora
Schwitters
Judy Filibeck presents
Leadership and Service Award to Neil Lieurance, July 25, 2007
Music in Worship: How Big Is Your Choir?, by
Ron Malory, R&S Chair for Music in Worship
Summer Institute 2007 - schedule, presenters,
and headliner
Summary of 2007 Summer Institute
with Z. Randall Stroope
Older articles - 2003-2006
Norb
Rossi talks of repertoire and of standards - Norb Rossi,
R & S
Chair, High School Choirs (2003)
Help
is out there! -
Internet sites provide many answers -
by Sara Boos, R & S Chair for Children's Choir
How
I came to love my women's choirs - by
Priscilla Baldock, R & S Chair for Women's Choirs
A
Conversation with Irish Composer Michael McGlynn -
by
Russell Seaton, WA ACDA Multicultural R & S Chair
Dale
Warland comes to Washington's Summer Institute -
Leslie Guelker-Cone (February, 2005)
Good Music
Collections for Smaller Church Choirs - by
Benjamin Brody, R&S Chair for Music
in Worship (Feb 2005)
Sabbaticals-
A time of rest !? by
Paula Herd, R & S Chair for Community Colleges (2005)
A
NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT - Leslie
Guelker-Cone (May, 2005)
WORKING WITH
A CHORAL ACCOMPANIST: A PRIMER - Steven Zopfi,
Washington State ACDA R & S Chair Youth/Student
AN
INTERVIEW WITH DALE WARLAND - WA ACDA Summer Institute Headliner,
July 27-29, 2005
By Karen P. Thomas,
Washington State ACDA R & S Chair Community Choirs
WHY AM I DOING
THIS AGAIN? -
Ken Pendergrass,
Washington State ACDA Newsletter Editor
SUMMER
INSTITUTE AT A GLANCE JULY
27-29, 2005, University of Puget Sound
Campus Tacoma, WA
Linda Hamilton,
Washington State ACDA President-elect
Summing it Up...2005 Summer Institute with
Dale Warland
Your
Summer Institute Survey Responses Helped -
By Leora Schwitters, WA State ACDA President-Elect
October 2005
Greetings
from new Eastern Liaison, Marc
Hafso (October, 2005)
Real
Men Do Sing! -
Western Washington University, Bellingham,
Friday, February 10, 2006
Feeling
Isolated? Make some choral connections! -by
John Hendrix, R&S Chair for Community Choirs (October 2005)
Guest
article (reprinted
by permission from "Tactus," Western
Divisional Newsletter, Karen Parthun, Editor)
The Case Against the Group Bow -
David Stocker, Professor Emeritus-Arizona State
University
THE
ADJUDICATOR’S
PREDOMINANT THEME…DEPTH OF SOUND -
By Richard Nance,
Past Washington State ACDA President,
Reprinted by permission. Originally appeared in UNISON Winter, 2000.
WHAT
IS A “DO-NOW”? Leora
Schwitters, Washington State ACDA R & S Chair Junior High/Middle School
Attitude
Adjustment Time by Leora Schwitters, ACDA R & S Chair Junior
High/MIDdle School
More on
the Adolf Fredriks Bach Choir
Tell
Me There’s More to Hear & See-“yahamba” - by
Russell Seaton, R & S Chair for Multicultural
Music
Rehearsal
Plan: Think Like A Financial Planner - by
Ann Brueggemeier, Jazz Chairperson, WMEA Board
Meet
your new board; talented volunteers who make Washington ACDA successful - by
Linda Hamilton, WA-ACDA President (2006)
Rebecca
Rottsolk and Beth Ann Bonnecroy to
co-direct new women's choir in Seattle (2006)
Meet
our 2006 WA-ACDA Summer Institute headliner: a conversation with Sharon
J. Paul - By
Sara Boos- Children’s Choirs R & S
Chair (2006)
The 2006 Summer Institute
Schedule and presenters
Summing up
the 2006 Summer Institute with Sharon Paul
The
human spirit - a response to
"Dealing with the Flake Factor" - By
Diane Johnson – Two-year College R &
S Chair (2006)
An
article from the Northwest Notes archives -(A
Commitment to Athenian Values, by Howard Meharg) By
Priscilla Baldock- Women’s Choirs R & S
Chair
Dear Colleagues - By
Joel Ulrich, WA State R & S Chair, High School (May,
2006)
Summer
Institute Update—You
must come! By Leora Schwitters,
WA State ACDA President Elect 2007
Meet
our 2006 WA-ACDA Summer Institute headliner: a conversation with Sharon
J. Paul - By Sara Boos-
Children’s
Choirs R & S
Chair (May, 2006)
Welcome
to spring! - By Janet
Reiter- WA State ACDA Western Division Liaison (May, 2006)
Past issues of UNISON:
Spring - 2002
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